Revolutionary vascular repair patch to treat aortic dissections

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Aortic Dissection is a major disease affecting 3-12/100.000 patients/year. Global mortality rates are upto 40% and yet symptoms are hard to diagnose, with today´s treatments not specifically designed for the condition resulting in a high tendency to fail. Aortyx wants to change that. We have developed a Vascular graft, a “patch” that is inserted via a minimally invasive procedure. It adheres to the fissure, stops the blood flowing between the layers, then promotes natural repair. Complicated, life threatening, Open Heart Surgery is avoided, as well as post-operation failures as we replace today´s rigid ‘stents’ with our highly flexible, almost natural patch. We have successfully proved the product operation in early pre-clinical trials, have a patent application in progress and the backing of several expert vascular surgeons. For this phase 1 project we wish to finalise our pre-clinical trial planning, as well as our business planning to create a new vascular grafting company with predicted accumulated incomes of 13.78M€ and 13 employees by 2025.